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I will be taking my MCAT in April 2005.
Can anyone recommend the BEST MCAT courses out there?

Which Med-Schools are easier to get into?
Which Med-School is hardest to get into?

 

[YzIa]

Schools like Finch, Drexel, Meharry.... accept applicants with lower stats.
MCW, St. Louis, BC, etc. are also known to be somewhat linient. There are many more schools such as these. But that does not make them easy to get into. A lot of these schools receive large numbers of applications due to the lower averages. All in all, your schools that accept a large number of instate applicants where you are a resident may be your best bet.

On the flipside, Washington U, JHU, Mayo, and the Ivy league schools are known to be extremely difficult to get into, or I should say have high standards.

 

[45408]

Virtually anyone on SDN who takes an MCAT prep course takes Kaplan, The Princeton Review (TPR) or Exam Krackers (EK). Kaplan is suited to you if you want someone giving reviews/lectures on all the subject material, and EK is more suited to you if you study best by yourself. I took Kaplan because I needed a steady influx of study material (I would've procrastinated otherwise). I don't know much about TPR, but the MCAT forum explains many of these things.

Like Yzia said, just because the average acceptance numbers are lower doesn't mean that you aren't competing with a lot of other people. Not sure why MCW was mentioned - the average MCAT there is a 30, which is the average matriculant's score overall, but if you are in-state at Wisconsin, you've got a good chance in getting in there. It does have a large incoming class though, which helps your chances.

 

[brats800]

i took kaplan for similar reasons as prowler...i was quite pleased with it. i wanted to make sure that i didn't have the opportunity to procrastinate or blow off the studying for a week or two. yes, the review courses are pretty expensive, but i figure its worth it if you don't have to retake the MCAT 😉

 

[YzIa]

Virtually anyone on SDN who takes an MCAT prep course takes Kaplan, The Princeton Review (TPR) or Exam Krackers (EK). Kaplan is suited to you if you want someone giving reviews/lectures on all the subject material, and EK is more suited to you if you study best by yourself. I took Kaplan because I needed a steady influx of study material (I would've procrastinated otherwise). I don't know much about TPR, but the MCAT forum explains many of these things.

Like Yzia said, just because the average acceptance numbers are lower doesn't mean that you aren't competing with a lot of other people. Not sure why MCW was mentioned - the average MCAT there is a 30, which is the average matriculant's score overall, but if you are in-state at Wisconsin, you've got a good chance in getting in there. It does have a large incoming class though, which helps your chances.

I mentioned MCW cause they have a reputation, just or not, of being more linient to scores that may be less than competitive, or other factors that may turn off other schools. I believe St. Louis is also ~30 for the avg incoming mcat. In fact, I really havn't found to many schools where the the mcat is below that except for the first few mentioned.
But as for WI residents, I assume MCW is even more forgiving.